Looks to me like this one came only to me, but not to the whole list. I'm sending it on to the list so everyone gets a chance at it. --Cheri -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [ORWASCO] HURST, DAVIS, GRAY & others Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 22:26:22 -0800 From: ron stone <blueoak@ix.netcom.com> To: Cheri <puny@mail.com> Cheri, and other listers, Maybe we can stir the list or something. My concerns in the Wasco list start with my great grandfather, WILLIAM PITCHFORD STONE. William's dad was named WILEY STONE. He was from S. C. Wiley and wife, Candas, were in GA, Forsyth Co when they had, by the 1850 census, Wesley, James, Francis Asbury and William Pitchford. William P was in the 28th Alabama Inf. They were pretty busy. Wiley and the other sons were all in separate CSA units. William P married Sarah Elizabeth Christofer and by 1900 in Indian Terr. Wm was a widower. On his farm for that census were shown his son, William Wiley Stone (my grandfather) and Clarence S Stone (age 2) my father. We think Wiley is buried somewhere in Boone, Searcy, area as he was in Indian Terr. when he died. William P Stone went on to eastern Oregon , and then more westward to near the Dalles. His town of Dufur apparently started by being a stop the first night on the way south from the Dalles. A very pretty little area, even today. William P lived on in this area, where in his 90s he collapsed in the fields. I personally spoke to a surviving pallbearer who lived on the same, Wolf Run Rd, where William P spent his last days on the farm of his grandson, Albert Hancock. I have several obits and a death certificate telling us that he is buried in the Odd Fellows Cem. People have told me that this is the one on the hills on the right side, coming south from the Dalles and just before the turn off into Dufur. It has been scoured on several visits there ..... no Wm P. !! A local resident in the area has been trying to help find the gravesite. I would like for him to have a "Stone". My local helper thinks he may have been the last surviving confederate vet in Oregon at the time he died in 1938. His span: Stone Mtn, GA in 1844 to Dufur , Ore (close enough to Mt Hood) in 1938. ron in CA At 09:48 PM 11/17/99 -0800, you wrote: >Howdy all you listers! Did you all lose your "voices" the past few days? >I thought we were on a roll there for a while, with all the activity we >had. Let's try that again. I liked it. <G> > >Since I never did get around to posting *my* surnames for Wasco Co., I >thought I'd do that right now. > >My earliest ancestors to Oregon were James & Malinda (DAVIS) HURST. They >came in from Gasconade Co., MO in 1851, going first to Linn Co. Malinda >was in her last trimester of pregnancy with their first child when they >got to Oregon, so she had a rather unique pregnancy experience the first >time around. I don't think they planned it that way. When they got to >Wasco Co., they took the Barlow Trail to cut around Mt. Hood & get to >where they settled at Sodaville in Linn Co., but Malinda was too >pregnant to go over Barlow Trail because it was so rough. Their >solution? She & a couple of other women in the party were put back into >the same wagon box they had floated the Columbia River in, and they >floated down the river, meeting up with the men on the other side of Mt. >Hood. > >James & Malinda stayed in Linn Co. from 1851 until sometime between 1854 >and 1860. They settled a Donation Land Claim in January of 1854 in Linn >Co. Then, leaving family still in Linn Co., for reasons unknown they >came back down the trail to Wasco Co., settling right at the Wasco Co. >end of the Barlow Trail. That's where they lived out their days & raised > >their family. That area is known as the "other" 15-Mile area. The >15-Mile that is on the map is just off of the freeway, about 15 miles >(whaddya know) *east* of The Dalles. But the Hurst's 15-Mile is the one >that is that far *south* of The Dalles as you're heading toward Maupin. >That's lesson #1 for anyone whose family came from one of the many >x-mile settlements: there are some in each direction. At any rate, I'd >love to hear from anyone who has good historical data about the area >south of The Dalles, and also from anyone who had family go to Linn Co. >or near the coast and then come back to Wasco Co later. > >James & Malinda's children were: Joseph, Jane, Susan, Emma, Uriah >(Jack), James, Malinda (Millie), Sina, Benjamin, William, Melissa, >Nancy, Minerva and Rufus (Marion). They were all born between 1851 and >1880 and about half of them stayed in the area. > >My direct line is through Susan HURST above, who married James Jackson >GRAY in 1876. He was from TN (as was the elder James HURST). They had 10 >children, most of whom stayed in the area near The Dalles. One of those >was my grandpa, John Elmer GRAY. Susan remarried after James Gray's >death in 1900. First she married L.S. "Doc" Covey, but they divorced, >and then she married a sweetheart of a man named William Brown, with >whom she is buried at Friend, OR (which is between 15-mile and The >Dalles on that road going south). > >Any scrap of information would be appreciated greatly. I'm heavily into >the historical aspects of this family's journey and their Oregon >lifestyle, so all types of info are wonderful. I would also like to >learn more about William Brown's family if anyone might know which >family that would be. I know he did have family near The Dalles >somewhere. > >Cheri (whew!) >puny@mail.com >--->>>^<<<--- >Freebies for Gen. Addicts---> http://www.historysavers.com/ > > > > > >==== ORWASCO Mailing List ==== >This is a friendly list. Therefore, NO FLAMING or rude behavior in any form >will be tolerated. 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